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I am David Gray, photographer and website designer from Melbourne, Australia. I love to capture and share the world around me.

24/10/2026

This was taken somewhere in Florence (I believe). People had poked bits of rubbish into the gaps, so I had to do some tidying up before I was able to post this.

I recently switched from Windows to Linux (Ubuntu, specifically). My computer was crashing randomly and I was hoping this would fix it (it has), plus I'm sick of software monopolies, companies spying on us and all that corporate hellscape jazz, so this morning I backed up my machine, wiped it clean, and put Ubuntu on it.

It's gonna take some getting used to, as I need to find apps that can properly replace Lightroom and Photoshop (and hope that my games still work), but we'll get there in the end, I'm sure of it.

09/09/2026

So I'm still going through my 2025 Europe photos. Some of them require me to put them down for a few days or weeks, then come back to look at them again with a fresh set of eyes, because, like the word "door", you stare at it for too long, and it just feels *wrong* for some reason you can't really articulate, but once you walk off, then come back, you see it's *right* and wonder what the hell you were thinking.

Anyway, this is the dome of the Pantheon in Rome. It was built in 27 BC, so it' well over 2,000 years old, which is mind-blowing, because the oldest "built" structures in Australia that are still remaining are about 200-400 years old.

This was a 5 image HDR (most of the exposures were to get the details around the sky in), with a tiny bit of overpainting, and some perspective warping to get everything to look symmetrical.

05/09/2026

Here's a shot that I edited, but for some reason didn't post during the massive solar storm we had in January this year. It's a panorama composed of several shots taken at Eagles Nest, Inverloch, Victoria. The colour on the ground is the aurora reflected in the rockpools.

It was such a magical night, as I could see the aurora with my own eyes, even if it was just a white haze off in the distance, and I genuinely wish everyone could see a sight like this.

25/07/2026

This time last year, I was in London reenacting the famous album cover by The Beatles by walking across Abbey Road.

In a few days time, I would be shooting this photo in Venice. As I said before, I wish I could have spent longer in Venice, as it was just full of interesting things to photograph, with a lot of history in it's very roots.

(check the comments to see a photo of me at the crossing)

24/07/2026

Another shot from Montmartre, Paris, during our 2025 European trip. We were lucky enough to get there around sunset, so the lighting was amazing, and the temperature was almost perfect.

I could sure use some of that summer right about now though, as I'm rugged up in my room, shivering like mad despite having the heater on.

20/07/2026

Today marks the 1 year anniversary of us flying to the UK and seeing Oasis / touring Europe for 3 wonderful weeks.

Because I'm forced to go to work instead of flying around the world having a good time, I'd appreciate your privacy during this very difficult time.

Anyway, this photo was taken at the top of Montmartre. Everyone was oohing and aahing at the view from the top, but I was taking photos of drain grates. You and I? We are built differently.

29/05/2026

About a month ago my wife and I travelled to Sydney, and I got to witness the partial destruction of the Sydney Opera House (if you need context, google TISM Opera House Damage -- the group I went to see allegedly caused $18,000 AUD worth of damage to seats and other parts of the main chamber).

On one of our days there, we went to the Chinese Garden of Friendship and I stood in this pavillion and took a photo.

It's incredibly difficult to point directly upwards without a tripod or spirit level, so I had to do some rotating, cropping, perspective shifting and masking to get this shot.

20/05/2026

Another Mt. Pilatus shot. This time I decided a black and white shot would look better, as the blue haze in the distance made editing this nearly impossible.

We're coming up to the 1 year anniversary of our trip to the UK to see Oasis / do a European tour. I want to travel again, but this pesky thing called "money" keeps standing in the way, so if you'd like to donate to the "let David just roam the country / the earth for ages" fund, hit me up.

10/05/2026

Happy Mothers Day to everyone who celebrates it (me), and happy I just saw Venjent perform again day to those celebrate that too (also me).

(I swear I had posted this on Facebook, but for some reason it didn't post, so I'll try again)

I'm very glad to have a mum who looks out for me, and looks after me. She not only taught me how to be a mostly functional human being, but is also a volunteer for a few organizations in the local community, so her kindness is far reaching.

So again, happy Mothers Day to those who celebrate it. If for some reason you don't speak to your mum, I'll be your mum, and I'm proud of the person you've become, though I wish you'd stop smoking, it's bad for you.

(this photo was taken in Florence near Piazza di Santa Croce)

05/05/2026

We all know it, we all love it, many of us have seen it with our own eyes, some have been photographed with it, pretending to push it up, and some of us have been photographed with it, pretending it's their ge****ls, but here it is again, Le Tower d'Oblique del Pizza, or to use it's actual, non-I'm-just-bullsh*tting-you name, Torre Pendente di Pisa, or the Tower of Pisa.

I think I may have angled this shot so the lean is more pronounced (as it's only tilted by four degrees in reality), but it truly is impressive to see.

Also, I expected to drive through a tall, bustling city and see the tower in the middle of some plaza as if it was just another thing someone would walk past on their way to work (Rome felt exactly like that, with things that were centuries old being right next modern buildings), but it was the tallest thing in the city and getting there felt like I was going through the outermost suburbs of Melbourne, passing by lots of farmland and going down some (relatively) quiet roads to get there.

Anyway, it was a cloudless day, and my polarizing filter meant I could get some deep blue skies, which, when made black and white, gives this black background, making the tower really stand out

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